Bajifan is correct-more than most would want to admit. Many of the legends, even people in the lineages were created for the movies. People then took these stories and told them as truths.
Ex: Hung Man-Ting was Hung Hei-Guen's son, who avenged his father's death by the Bak Mei Priest, by combining his mother's Crane techniques with his father's Tiger thus forming the Tiger Crane set of Hung-Ga.
Rubbish. Hung Man-Ting never existed-it was fabricated for the movie,"Fists of the White Lotus." Bak Mei did not kill Hung Hei-Guen, in fact, there is no evidence that Bak Mei Dao-Yan ever existed. The Tiger and Crane set was not created in this way.
But...there is a Hung-Ga school that has Hung Man-Ting in their lineage tree.
Most of the Wudang stuff is made up from Mainland wushu performers wearing Daoist robes, the same way they shaved their heads and suddenly became Shaolin monks. Tai Chi, Hsing-Yi, Ba Kua were created outside Wudang, from completely different sources.
Some say that the reason Wudang temple was built was to justify a general's search for the remaining family of the Ming Court, and he claimed he was searching for Chang Seng-Feng. The actual temple did not exist-at least not as seen today.Who knows?
You need to do way more research than simply watching a Jacky Chan movie.
